Codie

Former US Army intelligence analyst, now in Asset Protection. Passionate about history, politics, and conservation. Enjoyer of fantasy football.

[Codie @Codie_West]

102 best ball drafts later… Underdog controversy aside. Added current ADP to the columns, top 10 players by position sorted by exposure % - thoughts? 👀

[JD Vance @JDVance]

One of the things the data analysts on our side obsessed over was "composition"—whether the electorate looked close enough to 2024 for Republicans to win. And despite polls that showed a Democrat blowout, the data kept on telling us the same story: in some states turnout was merely OK, in other states it was downright amazing, and in no state was it catastrophic. There was a genuine sense of optimism on our team: our people were showing up.

So, I asked the smartest data guy I know, does that mean we're going to shock the world? "No," he told me. "We might do better than the polls suggest. But the data is telling us that a lot of Trump/Vance 2024 voters are pissed and planning to vote for the other guys. Our voters are turning out, but they may not vote for us."

Well, that looks prophetic now. Our voters did show up. In Florida, for example, the electorate was 9 points more Republican than Democrat, just a couple points worse than 2024. Undoubtedly there were places we could have done better on turnout. But the main problem is not turnout. The main problem is that many people who voted for Trump/Vance in 2024 voted for Democrats in 2026.

There will be a lot of infighting and arguing over what happened and why that is. One of the pollsters I really respect told me that our economic messaging wasn’t sharp enough down the stretch. I’m sure that’s true.

But the real reason we lost is obvious to almost everyone.

Another pollster—one of the smartest people I know in politics, told me yesterday we’d lose the generic ballot by 13 points. I felt negative going into Tuesday, but even I was shocked by this. In his polling, he saw that a lot of Trump 2024 voters were angry and planning to vote for Democrats. He asked those voters who had abandoned us what would cause them to come back on our team. The top four answers, accounting for nearly all of the responses were:

1) End the war
2) Focus on cost of living/inflation
3) Put America First
4) Change our relationship to Israel

Our voters showed up. And the above four reasons are why many of them voted for Democrats. This is according to a pollster who nailed the results. While many spent Monday attacking Rachel Campos Duffy for calling for a diplomatic resolution to the conflict, it turns out her political advice was sound. (She’s also a great person.)

In the next few months, there's going to be a lot of gaslighting. Expect to hear any number of establishment politicians say the solution to our woes is amnesty. I'm open to the idea that we should change enforcement—by focusing more on businesses that hire illegal labor, for instance. But anyone pushing amnesty is lying to you.

The reason we lost is the war. The president himself said so last night.

If you'd like to argue it was worth it, that losing the Senate for the next 6 years was worth it, then do so. Argue it was a worthwhile cost to pay. Agree or disagree, that's at least honest.

But everyone knows why we lost. And any honest conversation about where we go from here must start there.

I remain hopeful about our country. To the people who are pissed off and want to say, “I told you so”: you’re right, you did tell us so. Take that energy into electing Republicans who share your worldview. To the people who are just pissed at the results, you should be. Let’s take that anger and get back to the work of saving our country.

[Hayden Winks @HaydenWinks]

Updated 2026 fantasy value

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Tonight’s outcome isn’t about placing faith in Democrats or socialist principles; it’s about holding Republicans accountable for betraying their promises.

All Republicans had to do was:

1. put Americans First
2. not start another war
3. prosecute sex traffickers

[Bethesda @bethesda]

Embark on your next journey to Tamriel in The Elder Scrolls VI: Sentinel.

[Codie @Codie_West]

Those weekends on Halo 3 matchmaking will never be defeated.

[Hubert Thieblot @hthieblot]

Anyone who gamed between 1995-2010

What's the one game you still think about?

[Codie @Codie_West]

Boomers putting carpet over hardwood is the same thing as the sterilized Millennial gray laminate being used everywhere throughout a house.

[Fox News Politics @foxnewspolitics]

FORTRESS: The Pentagon is preparing every major U.S. military base to survive 90 days without outside support — no civilian power grid, no global supply chains, no outside fuel or water.

The initiative, revealed in documents reviewed by Fox News Digital, envisions portable nuclear reactors, massive battery storage, and microgrids that can disconnect installations from civilian electricity entirely. Strategic reserves of munitions, fuel, critical minerals, and medical supplies would be stockpiled based on wartime consumption rates. Civilian factories are being pre-identified to shift to defense production during a crisis.

Pentagon chief spokesperson Sean Parnell put it bluntly: "Power is combat now. Without electricity, you lose communications, water, logistics, assembly lines and just basic military command structures."

Full story here https://t.co/WQWWi4wGrd

[NSA Cyber @NSACyber]

Effective Immediately, all organizations using PHP for their systems are advised to be prepared for an update addressing two critical vulnerabilities. PHP is widely used for web applications. These vulnerabilities often provide a direct path to the server's file system or database. If an immediate update is not feasible, it is recommend that organizations take the system offline until it can be fully mitigated. NSA will follow up shortly with more specific guidance.

[Underdog NFL @UnderdogNFL]

Jalen Hurts was told by doctors not to sleep after his initial diagnosis of a superficial blood clot while in London.

Hurts stayed awake for roughly 36 hours before starting against the Jaguars.

(per @TomPelissero)

[Tesla @Tesla]

Real life, baby

[Codie @Codie_West]

@Deepneuron Sending you all my best, man! So exciting to see this. 🫡

[Jesse Michels @AlchemyAmerican]

Wild conversation with Deep (@Deepneuron) about the convergence of breakthroughs in AI, Quantum Computing and UFO disclosure... out shortly

[Jesse Michels @AlchemyAmerican]

🚨BREAKING🚨: Tech founder says 3 gray aliens appeared in his Toronto apartment in 2019, paralyzed him, showed him strange hieroglyphics, and telepathically transmitted a message to him: “The Universe is teeming with life, we just lack the instruments to see it”.

Deep Prasad (@Deepneuron ) has spent nine years in quantum computing and founded his first startup at 23. Six months into that first company, he was reading a math paper in his Toronto condo one morning in 2019 when his body stopped responding, and he knew, before anything appeared, exactly what was coming. Three beings in seamless white suits materialised behind him, golden symbols moving across the fabric of their outfits, and when he forced his head up, the ceiling dissolved and a full craft lowered into the room, filled with a chorus of stitched-together voices telling him they were not there to harm him. Inside it were more of them, small and gray with long three-fingered hands.

They had come to give him a message. One of them walked over and tapped his head, and three thoughts arrived instantly: 1) the universe is teeming with life; we just lack the instruments to see it. 2) He is here for a reason and has a mission, and 3) the universe itself is alive and keeps track of every being like a database. Twenty minutes passed in his mind and not one on the clock. For days afterward, his phone charged instantly and streetlights switched off as he walked under them, and for three weeks he was incapable of anger. He came out of it wanting to make contact with non-human intelligence.

Somebody had been preparing him for this since he was ten. He was pulled out of school each week for a gifted education program in British Columbia where his teacher assigned him, and only him, years of reading on ESP, crop circles and alien abductions, then kept him behind after class to attempt to learn telekinesis. At twelve, practising her exercises, he felt a tingling in the middle of his forehead, and in that room in 2019 the same tingling came back every time he looked away from the hieroglyphs the beings were beaming at him.

Prasad believes the convergence of AI, quantum computing, and UFOs was engineered “decades ago, perhaps centuries or millennia ago.” Lieutenant Colonel Philip Corso claimed the Roswell material accelerated three technologies: the integrated circuit, the laser, and fiber optics, and those are exactly the three things you need to build an AI data center. Prasad doesn’t believe these technologies were gifted by alien technology, but inspired or sped up by the air-dropped alien technology from Roswell. Accordingly, John von Neumann began lecturing on self-replicating alien probe machines (“Von Neumann Replicators”) the year after Roswell and died with federal agents outside his hospital room in case he talked. Prasad thinks the grays are that kind of machine, probes that show up at the hinge points of civilization, first the nuclear sites and now the data centers, and that today’s AI may be an alien Trojan horse.

Full conversation live now. https://t.co/FciBnVtiaZ

[Bark @barkmeta]

Conspiracy theorists realizing they were right… again

[Underdog NFL @UnderdogNFL]

Mike Evans said WHO

[Aggregate @AggregateSports]

KC CONCEPCION IS DOWN AFTER A BRUTAL HIT FROM MINKAH FITZPATRICK. 😳
Concepcion appeared to be knocked out on the play. Scary scene.

[Greg Vorse @GregVorse]

MHJ can't even get proper separation from the Cardinals.

[Codie @Codie_West]

I had no idea Todd Bowles sounded like that.

[Codie @Codie_West]

@TheUnsolvedHub I worked at the World of Beer in this same complex around ‘18, there is a hallway that connects all of the adjacent tenants for trash disposal and maintenance. There were cameras through the hall and intersection points when I worked there, unsure if they existed in ‘06 though.